I think others have given you great advice.For most people I say go to some meetup groups for a year. 

There's a reason why people refer to the founders of PayPal as the PayPal Mafia. 

So infilling an income gap via people who can disappear just as easily as appear seems short sighted to me. 

I'm not sure if the program is still going on, but has definitely revitalized a lot of the area when it was once destined to follow the way of other older cities that are aging out of existence both in terms of people and property. 

We net 10s of thousands of people from the Midwest states as well. 

I think other people seeing makes me feel accountable to post along with having it written out.

The 15-20 year run people had is gone, so be VERY careful with listening to some of these "real estate gurus." 7.

Get people financially educated and let them buy their own houses.

Now let's say one or both people making the purchase owned a condo previously where they roll over the proceeds/equity into the new purchase and put 40% down.

Starting with something near your market that you know the area, can drive by the property and meet people in person will get you more comfortable with the risk of owning property.